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NOTES OF THE TURF FROM OTHER LANDS. T.hI Sloan will shortly appear in Loudon in vaudeville as the hero of a racing play. A. T. Wagstaff. handicapiM-r to tlie Pretoria Racing Club, has joined the Pretoria Company of the South African Overseas Contingent. The smart four-year-old Flying Orb has been taken out of training and the son of Orby — Stella has left Oghourne for his owners stud at Bally-kisteen. near Limerick Junction, where he will make his doubt next year as a sire. Santoi and Barcadaile are the others sires at that stud. When in training the son of Orby won several high-class 2a.es. including the Port Wind Plate at Doncaster ami the Stewards Plate at Liverpool. Silver Star, vet another useful two-year-old out of J. B. Joels Doris, made his debut in the ISoscavven Stakes at Newmarket. September 29, and a lth. nigh he was beaten, it was only by the shortest of heads that he failed to land the odds laid upon him. Silver Star is a youngster of shapely dimensions, having more reach alxnit him than White • Star, and not so "stuffy," while he moves with machine-like precision. Sunstar was hy Sundridgc and Silver Star being by a son of Sundrldge he is. therefore, three-parts brother to the Derby winner. At Raudwick nowadays the training track gallops recorded at all distances are much faster than in comparison to races than. say. twenty years ago. The difference in training shoes is responsible, the grip given by the generally -adopted concave shoe I enabling a horse to act much better than with the i old stvle fiat shoe. Discussing the matter at Rand-wick recently. I*. Nolan remarked that experience had proved to him that with the weight of iron actually the same, a horse could gallop a mile nearlv three seconds faster with concave than with i flat sln.es. At Randwick. flat and heavy shoes went right out of favor after R. J. Mason cleared the lxiarl with his lightly-shod New Zeland team in i V.na Mason who was a smart runner in his earlv .lavs and is not too slow for an old tin now piobably looked at it that he never ran iu Marker lxx.ts" when training, and applied the same |-riucipl„ b his horses.— Sydney Referee.
